Airline travel amid the pandemic and the pandemics impact on the aviation industry. Sharp talksn about issues affecting native americans and the role they played in the election. Good morning. It is wednesday, november 25, the day before thanksgiving, traditionally one of the busiest travel days in the year. This is a Union Station in washington, d. C. , popular hub. Health and state Public Officials have urged people not to travel or spend the holiday outside their household, yet millions of americans packed airports this week in more are expected to hit the road today and tomorrow. We want to hear about your travel plans or lack thereof. If you are traveling this thanksgiving, what precautions are you taking . Give us a call if youre traveling. The number, [video clip] 202 7488000. If you are not traveling, 202 7488001. You can send us a text this morning. That number 202 7488003. If you do, include your name and where you are from. Catch up with us on social media. On twitter, cspan
His column. He has been on the airline and aviation beat for nearly two decades. He joins us on zoom this day before thanksgiving. Despite all the Public Health warnings and efforts to get people to stay home, air travel has hit an eightmonth high this thanksgiving. Has the amount of people willing to travel surprised you . Guest not really. I think for a lot of people, there have been mixed signals about travel. You have an Airline Industry that is pushing hard on the notion that travel is safe. There are dangers to it. And, you know, in some ways the , a more definitive warning about thanksgiving travel came late. We have seen a bit of a falloff in the number of people screened by tsa yesterday, down to 37 of what it was for a comparable day last year. Over the weekend, it was about 45 of last years totals, so, you know, there are a lot of people traveling. Look, people really want to go. They want to be with their families or take a break. And i think, you know, they have not gotten
Martha see you at 3 00. The Faulkner Focus is next. Harris breaking news, the judge has ruled in the fani willis case, with all of its Courtroom Drama and extramarital scandal. The judge says Fulton County District Attorney fani willis can remain on former president Donald Trumps election interference case. The catch. Her lover and head prosecutor nathan wade has to go. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the Faulkner Focus. Were standing by for any response that we might get from fani willis after this huge decision in the case against her that alleged Conflict Of Interest and inappropriate movement of cash between fani willis and the man she hired and had an affair with, nathan wade. The judge wrote this. There is a significant appearance of impropriety that infects the current structure of the prosecution team. There is no choice but to change it. We carried it all live. Remember these fierce moments and the willis Wade Courtroom Case . Youre confused and you think im on trial. These
Good morning and thanks so much for joining us at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. Reporting from new york, im ana cabrera. Beginning overnight on the Virginia Tech campus as colleges and universities are following a weekend of propalestinian protests and counter demonstrations across the country. Our Antonia Hylton is on the campus as well as a new report there . We have a new report from the Columbia University who says that they are not going to divest from the businesses who do business with israel, and they have no plans from the students who are going to walk away from the encampment, and the students are inspired from the encampments from across the United States from of course, here in new york, and tennessee and all of the way to california. The students have taken as a message of strength in the movement, and they are clearly sending a message and not just to their respective administrations, but really across the country now. We are seeing the schools handling this very differently, and
Made landfall yesterday in rough conditio conditions persisting. Reporter Hurricane Irma is moving up the gulf coast after hitting miami with powerful winds and rain for hours. Some streets are folded. Trees are down and here in miami, dade out so many Power Outages, more than 80 of customers are in the dark. Hurricane irma a statewide size storm is still pounding florida this morning. Miami scrapping the center but still hammered boy winds, gusts, approaching 100 miles per hour. The storm even producing some tornados. Winds so strong, at least three construction cranes crashed into buildings. In downtown miami, a storm surge taking over roads, looking more like rivers. Ahead of the monster storm, millions of floridians asked to evacuate. At this shelter, one of 500 open cross the state. No electricity. We were very nervous and scared. Millions of customers now without power across the state. The intense storm first making landfall in the florida keys. Now, climbing along the west coas